English 3 Midterm Exam
Study Guide 2013
Directions: Review the terms and concepts for each unit below. The descriptions and sequence
of events are NOT in order. All quizzes may be reviewed after school with your teacher(s) from
2:05-2:35. Some questions will be pulled directly from past quizzes and study guides.
1984 (20 Questions)
1. Matching:
Characters/Concepts:
 Winston
 Julia
 Mr. Charrington
 O’Brien
 Parsons
Descriptions:
 member of the Junior Antisex League
 Winston’s ex-wife
 loves Big Brother in the end
 Winston’s torturer
 children turn him in for a
thought crime
 where people are punished
for wrongdoing
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Big Brother
Newspeak
Goldstein
Ministry of Love
Katherine
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person that is the focus of the
Two-Minute Hate
rents an apartment out to
Julia and Winston
the figure that is always
“watching you”
rewriting and removing
current events and history
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2. True/False
3. Multiple Choice:
a. based on the following terms: plot, theme, paradox, characterization, tone and
mood, symbolism
b. Passages:
i. “It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes
follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING
YOU, the caption beneath it ran.” (Orwell 1-2)
ii. “WAR IS PEACE; FREEDOM IS SLAVERY; IGNORANCE IS
STRENGTH” (Orwell 27)
iii. “’Of all horrors in the world—a rat!’” (Orwell 144)* Spoken by
Winston
iv. “’You asked me once,” said O’Brien, ‘what was in Room 101. I told
you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing
that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world.’” (Orwell 283)
*Spoken by O’Brien
v. “But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was
finished. He had won the victory over himself. He love Big Brother.”
(Orwell 297)
Hunger Games (10 Questions)
1. Matching:
Characters/Concepts:
 Katniss
 Peeta
 Haymitch
Descriptions:
 reminder of Prim while in the
Hunger Games
 mentor from District 12
 the girl on fire
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President Snow
Rue
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male tribute from District 12
says only a spark of hope is
ok (no more though!)
2. True/False based on the following terms: plot, theme, characterization, symbolism
Medieval Poetry (20 Questions)
1. ****SEE PRACTICE QUIZ ****
2. Poems: “Bonny Barbara Allan,”“The Twa Corbies,”“I Sing of a Maiden,”“Ubi Sunt Qui
ante Nos Fuerunt?,”“Sir Patrick Spens”
3. True/False
4. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: plot, theme, characterization, tone
and mood, symbolism
“The Enron Effect” (5 Questions)
1. True/False based on the following terms: purpose, support, point of view
Medieval Background (20 Questions)
1. Multiple Choice: all terms and definitions on prezi, start date, end date, significant forms
of literature, feudal system and questions directly pulled from Prezi on-line
http://prezi.com/u_ehyg5gvefl/medieval-period/
Everyman (15 Questions)
1. True/False
2. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: plot, theme, paradox,
characterization, tone and mood, symbolism
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (20 Questions)
1. ****SEE PARTS 1-3 STUDY GUIDES****
2. Matching:
Characters/Concepts and Descriptions:
Characterization:
1. Arthur – youthful, enthusiastic, looking for adventure
2. Guenevere – Arthur’s wife, the most beautiful maiden
3. Green Knight – giant-like, but handsome “fine features of face”
4. Gawain – nephew; asks to take the challenge
5. lord and wife – really Green Knight and his wife; testing Gawain
3. True/False
4. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: plot, theme, characterization, tone
and mood, symbolism. See notes below
Imagery/Symbolism:
 Green = magical…fey (190)
 Bough of holly & heavy ax – no harm, just a “game” (190)
 Ax – power and challenges the people
 Green scarf – protection; test of integrity; symbol of his sin
(Scarlet Letter)
 Green Knight – test and challenge to the Knights of the Round
Table…their honor
 Strokes:
1. faithfully gave day’s gains
2. faithfully gave day’s gains
3. SCRATCH = lied – to save life…not for lust
Theme/Motif:
 Testing Courage – “But be sure, Sir Gawain, that fear does not
cause you to fail in this test…”
 Redemption and salvation in penance
Le Morte d’Arthur (20 Questions)
1. Matching:
Characters and Descriptions:
1. Uther – demanding, smitten with Igraine; Arthur’s father
2. Duke – dutiful to his wife, leader of Cornwall
3. Igraine – (wife of Duke) beautiful, charming, remember her from “Sir Gawain?”
4. Privy Counsel – tells Uther to call Duke and wife again
5. Merlin – wizard, expected to remedy Uther’s “sickness” (obsession)
6. Morgan le Fay – black magic (necromancy)
7. Sir Ector – raised Arthur
8. Arthur – poorer/humble means, Sir Kay’s little brother
2. True/False
3. Multiple Choice: based on the following terms: plot, theme, characterization,
purpose, symbolism
The Canterbury Tales (15 Questions)
2. Matching:
Characters:
 Host
 Knight
 Priest
 Nun (Prioress)
 Summoner
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Descriptions:
 follows honor and
chivalry
 an honest priest that
practices what he
preaches
 court officer who tells
people to see the
judge
 judge of the storytelling contest
 pretended to have
sophisticated manners
3. True/False
4. Multiple Choice:
 Squire
 Yoeman
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Pardoner
Friar
Plowman
Wife of Bath
Monk
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loved his neighbors as
himself
gifted seamstress that
was married 5 times
hunted instead of
practicing & studying
religion
spent most of his time
at inns with women
sold fake relics
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Plowman
Parson
Pardoner
Prioress
“Pardoner’s Tale:” Independent Reading (5 Questions)
1. Multiple Choice:
 Content
 Characters
 Moral
Vocabulary/Roots (50 Questions)
1. morality play
2. naïve allegory
3. plot
4. theme
5. climax
6. symbol
7. imagery
8. motif
9. Arthurian legend
10. chivalry
11. folk ballad
12. rhyme scheme
13. simile
14. narrative
15. lyric
16. omen
17. courtly love
18. simile
19. allegory
20. personification
21. seven deadly sins
22. transitory
23. respite
24. caitiff
25. almsdeeds
26. pilgrimage
27. noun
28. verb
29. adjective
30. adverb
31. prefix
32. root
33. suffix
34. A, AN
35. agnostic
36. anarchy
37. anecdote
38. anomaly
39. atheist
40. atheistic
41. atypical
42. AMBI, AMPHI
43. ambience
44. ambiguous
45. ambivalence
46. ambivalence
47. AMBUL
48. Ambulatory
49. ANN, ENN
50. annals
51. annuity
52. superannuated
53. biennial
54. perennial
55. ANTE, ANTI
56. antecedent
57. antediluvian
58. anterior
59. anteroom
60. antiquated
61. antiquity
62. ANTHROP
63. anthropoid
64. anthropomorphic
65. misanthrope
66. philanthropy
67. ANTI
68. anticlimax
69. antidote
70. antithesis
71. AUTO
72. autocratic
73. automaton
74. autonomy
75. autonomic
Open-Ended (50 points)
Directions: Choose TWO of the following to answer in 1-2
paragraphs. Be sure to use support from your readings and
viewings this year to answer these questions. You may prepare your
answers before the day of the exam and bring it to the exam with
you.
1. Examine the cause and effect of rebellion. Think of a character or characters that you
have met this year that have experienced rebellion. Why would a person want to defy
their own central power?
2. Think of a character or characters that you have met this year that have struggled to
achieve or maintain honor. Offer your own definition of honor. Explain how this
definition changes or has changed over time.
3. Sometimes people are torn between the boundaries of loyalty. Think of a character or
characters that you have met this year that have experienced conflict when his/her loyalty
is being tested.